"Computer Artifacts" - D2CA's 5¼" Floppy Disk Collections

5¼" Floppy Sleeves - Commercial | 5¼" Floppy Sleeves - Shareware | 5¼" Floppy Sleeves - Media | 5¼" Floppy Sleeves - Miscellaneous
5¼" Floppy Drive Transportation Protector | 5¼" Floppy Disk Boxes And Bulk Packages

Dan's 20th Century Abandonware's 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Collection Do you remember 5¼" floppy disks? To care for them properly, 5¼" floppy disks have to be stored in protective sleeves to protect the exposed magnetic surface from the elements. During the 1980's and early 1990's, computer companies put a lot of imagination and art into designing the covers for these protective sleeves. Much of that art has been lost to obsolescence as technology grew exponentially from the mid-1990's on. While collecting titles for my legacy software collection, I have discarded many defective 5¼" floppy disks, but kept at least one sleeve of every different kind I could find. This rapidly grew into an incredible collection. One of each sleeve is displayed below. Also displayed are the unique 5¼" floppy disks sleeves that hold the disks in my legacy software collection. These are from titles I have found and from titles donated to D2CA.

Software Companies & Programs -- Commercial

Ability Plus 2.00 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve An "integrated suite" for DOS, instead of paying for custom 5¼" floppy sleeves, American Productivity Software printed their title on mailing labels and put them on generic 5¼" floppy sleeves. This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" floppy disks of Ability Plus 2.00 which resides in my legacy software collection.

ACT! 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve is for a DOS version of the ACT! personal information manager (PIM) by the same name. This floppy sleeve belonged to a version of ACT! made by Contact Software International, Inc. -- the original company who created ACT! Symantec acquired ACT! from Contact Software International, Inc. in 1993 and released Windows 3.1x and Windows 9x versions until 1999, when it was acquired by SalesLogix who later sold ACT! to Best Software in 2001, who changed their name to Sage Software and continue to market the product to this day.

Aldus 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve You don't see too many 5¼" floppy sleeves of programs made for Windows 2.x anymore. This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Aldus PageMaker 3.0 for Windows 2.x which resides in my legacy software collection.

Apple Computer It was necessary to show both sides of this rare Apple Computer 5¼" floppy disk sleeve because it has Apple Computer's original business logo on the back of the sleeve. In later years, Apple Computer's logo lost the words "apple computer" and left just the apple symbol.

Ashton-Tate 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Creators of dBASE, Applause, and other software products, Ashton-Tate was one of the most successful PC software companies of the 1980's and early 1990's. This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Applause II which resides in my legacy software collection.

Autodesk, Inc. 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of AutoSketch Release 2.0 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Autodesk, Inc. 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of AutoSketch Release 3.0 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Autodesk, Inc. 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of AutoCAD Release 12 c1 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Autodesk, Inc. 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of AutoCAD Release 12 c3 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Br0derbund 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Commodore 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Commodore 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of the Commodore 1551/1541 test/demo disk which resides in my legacy software collection.

Commodore 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Computer Associates 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Silverado 1.0 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Core Technology 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Generally not found outside large companies, Core Technology specialized in making terminal emulator software for Unisys mainframe systems.

Corel 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Going the extra mile to protect their 5¼" floppy disk media, Corel actually lined the inside of some of their 5¼" floppy sleeves, like this one, with a protective, wax-like liner.

Corporate Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Corporate Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of SOS Save Our Spreadsheet 1.2A for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

DacEasy 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of DacEasy Light 1.00 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

DacEasy, Inc. 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of DacEasy Accounting 4.1 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

DesignCAD 3D 3.1 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Bold and colorful, this floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of DesignCAD 3D 3.1 which resides in my legacy software collection.

Electronic Arts 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of DeluxePaint II for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Electronic Arts 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Enable 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Fifth Generation Systems 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Fastback Plus 3.30 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Genus Microprogramming 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of GX Graphics 2.01 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

GeoWorks 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve A rare find today, GeoWorks is a graphical user interface that runs on DOS and looks similar to the Windows 3.x GUI.

IBM 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve 180K -- 1982 Before they became "Big Blue," IBM used this color for their single-density 180K 5¼" floppy sleeves.

IBM 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve 360K Note the white color of the top back portion of the sleeve, differentiating itself from the sleeves used for single-sided 180K floppies.

Individual Software, Inc. 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Individual's ResumeMaker 1.30 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

KAYPRO 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve An extremely rare find today, KAYPRO produced some of the first portable computer systems. This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of KAYPRO CP/M 2.2 and S-BASIC Compiler which resides in my legacy software collection.

Kriya Systems, Inc. / Simon & Schuster 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of Typing Tutor IV with Letter Invaders 1.0 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Leading Edge 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Lifetree Software, Inc. 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Volkswriter 3.0 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Lotus 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Displaying the original Lotus logo, this floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Lotus 1-2-3 Release 1A for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Lotus 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Using a different style logo, this is a mid-1980's version of 5¼" floppy sleeve Lotus Development Corporation used for their software.

Lotus 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve A newer style of 5¼" floppy sleeve Lotus Development Corporation used with later versions of their software.

Lotus 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Microinform 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve A rare find today, this floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Lexicon 1.2, a Russian text editor, which resides in my legacy software collection.

MicroPro 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve The original name of the company that developed the WordStar word processor, this floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of WordStar 4.0 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Microsoft 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve -- 1984 A rare glimpse into the early days of this company, this is what Microsoft's second logo looked like, along with their slogan, "The High Performance Software." Microsoft used this logo style until 1987. Microsoft also used the "High Performance" moniker in 1989 when they developed the High Performance File System, or HPFS for OS/2 1.x.

Microsoft 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve -- 1984 Another rare Microsoft disk sleeve, this floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Microsoft FORTRAN Compiler 3.20 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection. The green background with the light yellow stripe pattern was used by Microsoft for their programming languages.

Microsoft 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve -- 1987 Though you don't find many Microsoft 5¼" floppy disk protective sleeves these days, you will recognize the logo. This is the logo design Microsoft uses to this day which they first adopted in 1987.

Migent 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Ability 1.2 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Novell 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This is one of 49 original floppy disk sleeves that house the original 360K commercial disks of Novell NetWare 2.15 and resides in my legacy software collection.

Novell 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This is one of 30 original floppy disk sleeves that house the original 1.2MB commercial disks of Novell NetWare 3.11 Upgrade and resides in my legacy software collection.

Novell NetWare 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Parsons Technology 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Peachtree Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Peachtree Complete II & Peachtree Data Query II 4.21 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Peachtree Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Peachtree Complete III Basic Accounting 5.0 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Peachtree Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Looking nearly identical to the floppy disk sleeves for Peachtree Complete III Basic Accounting 5.0 for DOS, this floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Peachtree Double Bonus Bundle 5.00 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Peachtree Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Peachtree Accounting 3.5 for Windows 3.1x which resides in my legacy software collection.

Perfect Calc 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve -- 1983 Perfect Calc was originally written for the CP/M operating system. This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of Perfect Calc 1.15 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Perfect Filer 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve -- 1983 Perfect Filer was originally written for the CP/M operating system. This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of Perfect Filer 1.23 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Perfect Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve -- 1983 This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of Fast Graphs 1.1 which resides in my legacy software collection.

Perfect Writer 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve -- 1983 Perfect Writer was originally written for the CP/M operating system. This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of Perfect Writer 1.1 which resides in my legacy software collection.

Personics Corp. 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Personics Corp. 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve A second, more colorful version of a Personics Corporation 5¼" floppy sleeve. This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of Look&Link 1.12 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Reference Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Grammatik III 1.05 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Reference Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Grammatik IV 4.2 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Simon & Schuster 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

SoftLogic Solutions 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

South-Western 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

SSI Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve A very rare find these days, SSI stands for Satellite Software International -- the original name of the software company that created WordPerfect for DOS and other software programs. This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of MathPlan 2.1 for DOS, which is also a rare find today. It resides in my legacy software collection.

SSI Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Another Satellite Software International 5¼" floppy disk sleeve, this sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of WordPerfect 4.1 for DOS, which is also a very rare find today. It resides in my legacy software collection.

SSi (Strategic Simulations, Inc.) 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Not to be confused with Satellite Software International, this SSI stands for Strategic Simulations, Inc. and this software company created DOS-based games for PCs. Note that Strategic Simulations, Inc. had to use a lowercase i to avoid duplicating Satellite Software International's abbreviation.

Symantec 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Traveling Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of LapLink Pro 4.0c for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Unison World 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve The original creators of PrintMaster, Unison World, Inc. is a software company long lost to the ages.

West Publishing Company 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of West Soft Pack 2.5 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Westlake Data Corp. 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses an original commercial 5¼" disk of PC Fullbak+ for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

WordPerfect Corporation 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Using the same blue marble style as when this company was previously called Satellite Software International (SSI, see above), this is one of the first 5¼" floppy disk sleeves produced by WordPerfect Corporation. This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of WordPerfect 4.2 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

WordPerfect Corporation 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Using the same gray marble style as when this company was previously called Satellite Software International (SSI, see above), this is one of the first 5¼" floppy disk sleeves produced by WordPerfect Corporation. This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

WordPerfect Corporation 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve As WordPerfect Corporation grew and evolved, their 5¼" floppy sleeves also changed style and from paper to more sturdy cardboard. This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

WordPerfect Corporation 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

WordStar 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of WordStar Legacy 1.1 for Windows 3.1x which resides in my legacy software collection.

WordStar 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of WordStar Pro 5.0 for DOS which resides in my legacy software collection.

Wordtech Systems 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Xerox 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Among other computer products, Xerox also developed and marketed one of the most successful DOS desktop publishing programs which used the GEM graphical user interface. The program was called Xerox Ventura Publisher. This floppy disk sleeve houses one of the original commercial 5¼" disks of Xerox Ventura Publisher 2.0 with Professional Extension which resides in my legacy software collection.

Shareware on 5¼" floppy disks? Can you imagine now that back in the 1980's and early 1990's shareware was actually distributed on floppy disks more than it was on-line on BBS's? At that time the Internet was not available to the public, and the World Wide Web did not exist until 1994. Only businesses and the affluent had the resources to engage in long-distance dial-up to Bulletin Board Services. A fortunate few who lived within local dialing of BBSs could also partake. But the bulk of shareware was sold through distribution companies on 5¼" floppies. A few of the more successful shareware authors were able to go solo with their sales. Do you remember browsing shareware titles in your local software store in racks of 5¼" floppy disks? I do, because I did.

Software Companies -- Shareware

ButtonWare 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Quicksoft 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This is the kind of art you will never see again on new software packaging. Art that was hand-drawn, not air-brushed or computer generated. This "human touch" gave the computing experience a more personal feeling and a sense that the machine had not totally dominated all that we see and do. This floppy sleeve still houses an original 5¼" floppy of PC-Write 2.55 for DOS with Quicksoft's original label and resides in my legacy software collection. The "label" on the 5¼" disk in the artwork says "CATALOGUE."

Quicksoft 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve - PC Write 3.0 Changing their Quicksoft title from a handwritten logo to a type font, and showing a type printed "PC-Write" on the artwork instead of a handwritten label, Quicksoft continued to use this artwork to promote their shareware software. This floppy sleeve still houses an original 5¼" floppy of PC-Write 3.0 for DOS and resides in my legacy software collection.

TLC Software 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Media Companies

3M Scotch 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This is one of the first styles of 5¼" floppy disk sleeve 3M created for their media products, bearing their Scotch name.

3M Scotch 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

3M 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve -- "data data..." Dropping the "Scotch" name and using a different approach to promote data integrity, 3M used this creative approach for a time on its 5¼" floppy disk sleeves.

3M 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This is a later style 3M 5¼" floppy sleeve.

3M 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve One of the more rare finds is this version of 3M's 5¼" floppy disk sleeve promoting 3M's sponsorship of the 1988 Olympic Games.

3M 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Adding a little more art, changing the font on "diskettes," this another version of 3M's 5¼" floppy disk sleeve.

3M 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Adding their Mark Q data certification logo, this is one of the last versions of 3M's 5¼" floppy disk sleeve.

3M 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve "Free Formatted Diskette" When floppy disks were first sold, they were left unformatted because there were several different computer systems co-existing and fighting for market share -- Apple II, Commodore, IBM PC and Compatibles, etc. Rather than package disks with different formats, floppy disk manufacturers sold them "raw" for many years. This sleeve was for an 11th "free" 5¼" floppy disk included in a box of 10 double-sided double-density (DS-DD) disks as a promotional plan. It was formatted as IBM/Compatible 360K. While this 11th floppy disk was "free," to get it you had to buy the other 10 disks.

ATHANA 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This 5¼" media company put its logo on a generic backup floppy disk sleeve like the one featured later in the "generic" disk sleeves section.

BASF 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Before BASF's advertising slogan, "We don’t make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better®," BASF did make this product -- their own line of 5¼" floppy disks.

BASF 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve A more colorful version of BASF 5¼" floppy disk sleeves.

Bonus 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

CenTech 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Destiny PC Connections 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Dysan 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Dysan 100 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Dysan Corporation 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Elephant Memory Systems 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve A variation of the old addage, "An elephant never forgets," this company equated this to the quality of their 5¼" floppy disks. This floppy disk sleeve has humorous sayings on the back. Here is a larger image of the back of the floppy disk sleeve.

Elephant Memory Systems 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve An alternate, more contemporary (but not as fun) version.

Fuji Film 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Inmac Plus 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Lyben 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Maxell 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve No, I didn't snip off the right corner of this 5¼" protective floppy disk sleeve. Maxell designed this unique trait to distinguish themself from other 5¼" floppy disk makers.

Maxell 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve A later, more stylish version of Maxell's 5¼" floppy disk sleeve. Maxell adds the phrase "Reliable & Durable" to this design.

Maxell 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Another variation of Maxell's 5¼" floppy disk sleeve without the angled corner.

Maxell 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Yet another later style of 5¼" floppy sleeve Maxell produced for their floppy disk products. Maxell dropped the "mini-floppy disk" and "Reliable & Durable" phrases in this design.

Memorex 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Is it live, or is it a backup? Did you know (before seeing this 5¼" floppy protective sleeve) that Memorex was an abbreviation for "memory excellence?"

Memorex 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve A later version of Memorex's 5¼" floppy disk sleeves.

Precision 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Precision Copy 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Quill 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Quill 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

StorageMaster 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

StorageMaster 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Syncom Platinum Series 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

TDK 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve To think that 5¼" floppy disks were considered "mini." Since the 5¼" floppy disk was created for personal computers, "minifloppy disk" was the actual technical term. They called it "mini" because it was -- compared to 8" floppy disks used for computer systems before personal computers.

TDK 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve A newer version of the TDK floppy disk sleeve.

Verbatim DataLife 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Verbatim DataLife 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Verbatim DataLife 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Verbatim DataLife 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Verbatim DataLife Colors 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Verbatim DataLifePlus 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Verbatim DataLifePlus 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve These 5¼" high-density 1.2MB floppy disks boasted a protective Teflon® coating on the magnetic recording surface. But, wait a minute. I thought that Teflon was that non-stick coating that was put on cooking containers to prevent food from sticking to it. If Teflon is put on these disks, wouldn't that prevent the data from "sticking," thus causing data loss when the data slid off of them???

Verbatim 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Xerox 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Wait a minute. Don't these people make copiers? In fact, they made computers, floppy disk media, and one of their research and development teams actually invented the first computer "mouse" and graphical user interface.

Hardware Companies

AT&T 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve "We're sorry, the computer you are attempting to call is no longer in service." For a time, AT&T also made computer hardware, which had system and other software distributed on 5¼" floppy media. That round symbol next to the AT&T title looks vaguely familiar. Wasn't that what destroyed the planet Alderaan?

Compaq 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

DFI 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

DTK Computer 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

FAMOUSMAKER 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Packard Bell 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Tandy 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

The Complete PC 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve With a title like this, wouldn't it make this company look bad if they shipped an incomplete PC? "Honestly, we didn't forget to ship the hard drive. The order was miscommunicated as a dual-floppy system."

Miscellaneous

5.25 INCH FLOPPY DISKS This 5¼" floppy disk sleeve simply states what it is for -- to house 5.25 inch floppy disks.

Blue 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve In a day before compact discs were commonplace, this symbol eerily resembles the light-reflecting icons we are so used to seeing today. It is actually a representation of the round magnetic disc inside the 5¼" floppy's square protective housing.

Blue 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Clear 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Not usually found outside older 3-ring binder manuals of software programs, this is a clear plastic 5¼" floppy disk sleeve.

Diskette 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

Generic 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve This 5¼" floppy disk sleeve is for catagorizing disks, most likely for backup sets or other data storage.

"Green Y" 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve Currently, I don't know what company this logo represents. Do you? Please tell me.

Red 5¼" Floppy Disk Sleeve

5¼" Floppy Drive Transportation Protector

When shipping 5¼" floppy drives or computer systems with 5¼" floppy drives, the read/write head assembly could be damaged from vibration and shock during transportation. Cardboard inserts the size of a 5¼" floppy disk were created to be placed in a drive to insulate the head assembly from vibration and shock and to hold the assembly in place during transportation. Featured below are my 5¼" floppy drive transportation protectors. Click a thumbnail for a full-size view.

5¼" Floppy Disk Boxes And Bulk Packages

Featured below are packages of 5¼" floppy disk boxes with their content still intact -- most are still in their original shrinkwrap.

BASF DS-DD 35-Disk Economy Pack While most retail and computer stores sold 5¼" disks in 10-count boxes, this 35-count "economy pack" gave you more value for the money. These double-sided double-density disks were sold unformatted. All 35 original floppies remain in this package in their original commercial disk sleeves.

Verbatim DS-QD 5¼" Sealed Box 10-Count (1984) A very rare find in an original shrinkwrap box these days, this is a 1984 box of 5¼" double-sided quad-density floppy disks. In the early 1980's, before high-density 1.2MB 5¼" floppy disks were invented, the highest standard density for PCs was 5¼" double-density 360K. A proprietary quad-density 5¼" drive was invented to allow double-sided 5¼" floppy disks to be formatted up to 800K. These were discontinued when high-density 1.2MB 5¼" floppy disks became the new standard. These floppy disks were sold unformatted.

Highland DS-DD 5¼" Sealed Box 10-Count (1987) This is a 1987 package of ten 5¼" double-sided double-density floppy disks sealed in its original shrinkwrap. Highland was an alternate brand name used by 3M. These floppy disks were sold unformatted.

3M DS-DD 5¼" Sealed Box 10-Count (1989) This is a 1989 3M package of ten 5¼" double-sided double-density floppy disks sealed in its original shrinkwrap. These floppy disks were sold unformatted.

3M DS-HD 5¼" Sealed Box 10-Count (1992) This is a 1992 3M package of ten 5¼" double-sided high-density floppy disks sealed in its original shrinkwrap. Note the Olympics symbol in the lower left corner of the front side of the box. 3M was a sponsor of the Olympic Games. These high-density floppy disks were sold unformatted. This package also has a keyboard wrist rest "peel and save" offer on the front of the box. The expiration date was 5/1/93.

3M DS-DD 5¼" Sealed Box 10-Count (1993) This is a 1993 3M package of ten 5¼" double-sided double-density floppy disks sealed in its original shrinkwrap. 3M was still selling these floppy disks unformatted.

3M DS-HD 5¼" Sealed Box 10-Count (1994) This is a 1994 3M package of ten 5¼" double-sided high-density floppy disks sealed in its original shrinkwrap. These disks are formatted in IBM/compatible 1.2MB capacity. D2CA currently has two of these original sealed boxes.

Fuji Film DS-DD 5¼" Sealed Box 10-Count (Early 1990's) This is an early 1990's Fuji Film package of ten 5¼" double-sided double-density floppy disks sealed in its original shrinkwrap. Fuji put a gold foil "Mark of Excellence" seal on the front and sides of this package. "Each FUJI 5¼" disk is tested at levels that are 50% higher than industry standards, to protect your data for a lifetime of error free performance." (Quote from back of package) These floppy disks were sold unformatted.

Maxell DS-HD 5¼" Sealed Box 10-Count (Early 1990's) This is an early 1990's Maxell package of ten 5¼" double-sided high-density floppy disks sealed in its original shrinkwrap. Maxell gave these disks the "Super RD II" quality label. These disks are formatted in IBM/compatible 1.2MB capacity.

Generic 5¼" DS-DD 10-Count Boxes (Early 1990's) These 10-count generic boxes of double-sided double-density 5¼" floppies are sealed in their original shrinkwrap. They are light blue in color and were sold unformatted. They also include chrome silver adhesive write-protect decals and white paper disk labels. Dan's 20th Century Abandonware currently has a total of five of these 10-count 5¼" DS-DD boxes in their original shrinkwrap. Two additional boxes were also included but their shrinkwrap was broken. Those 20 floppies were formatted and added to my reserve stock of 5¼" floppies.

Generic Bulk 5¼" DS-HD 25-Count (Early 1990's) In addition to retail boxing and packaging of floppy disks, they were also sold in bulk. This 25-count generic package of double-sided high-density floppies is sealed in its original shrinkwrap. Included on the other side of the package are two strips of chrome silver adhesive write-protect decals.

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